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Title(s):
Paxton's magazine of botany, and register of flowering plants.
Additional Title(s):

Paxton's botany

Register of flowering plants
Published/Created:
London : Orr and Smith, Paternoster Row, MDCCCXXIV-MDCCCXLIX [1834-1849]
Physical Description:
16 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
QK1 .P3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Periodicals
Notes:
Published by William S. Orr & Co., 1837-1849.
Includes lithographed and wood-engraved illustrations.
No more published?
Also available in microfiche from IDC.
BAC: British Art Center copy includes volume 1 only. Bound in contemporary olive leather and marbled boards.
Periodical devoted to the illustration in colour of new and uncommon plants grown in British gardens; although primarily horticultural in appeal, it contains the first descriptions of many new species.
Subject Terms:
Botany -- Periodicals.
Flowers -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works -- Periodicals.
Flowers -- Identification -- Periodicals.
Gardening -- Great Britain -- Periodicals.
Horticulture -- Great Britain -- Periodicals.
Form/Genre:
Wood engravings -- 1834-1849.
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1834-1849.
Contributors:
Paxton, Joseph, Sir, 1803–1865.
Orr & Compy, publisher.
Orr & Smith, publisher.
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